John Francis Mercer, a non-signing Delegate from Maryland, using the penname “A Maryland Farmer,” publishes an anti-federalist essay, warning against ratification of the proposed Constitution for the united States. In paragraph one he writes,
… My fear is, that our general government may ultimate in an hereditary authority—if not despotism—to avoid the former, great attention should be paid to the important office of Vice-President—at present but little understood:—A Vice-President to succeed on a vacancy prevents those evils which have ruined Poland and all the northern kingdoms. …
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References:
Murray Dry, The Anti-Federalist: An abridgement, from The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing, ed., (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 265.
Maryland Farmer VI
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